don
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,589
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
don is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’offrir à quelqu’un quelque chose, de lui en abandonner la propriété ou présent qu’on lui fait ainsi. Pronounced \dɔ̃\. It ranks #1,589 in French word frequency. Often confused with du and dr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | don |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for don is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,589 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for don in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is don, spelled D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’offrir à quelqu’un quelque chose, de lui en abandonner la propriété ou présent qu’on lui fait ainsi.
- 2Chose donnée.
- 3Abandon ou délaissement gratuit à quelqu’un d’un objet ainsi accordé.
- 4Donation entre conjoints de l’usufruit de leur bien, pour que le survivant en jouisse.
- 5Biens, qualités physiques ou morales, avantages qu’on reçoit à la naissance.
- 6Aptitude.
- 7Aptitude magique permettant de guérir les brûlures et autres affections de la peau.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,589 in French
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